“Life interfering again” open thread

Sorry for the silence this weekend. Lately it seems that, whenever I get back on track with either blogging or exercise (or perhaps both blogging and exercise), life intervenes and knocks me off track again. What happened this weekend is more of an inconvenience, and I’ll tell you about it later. Can’t today, though. In the meantime, please amuse yourself with this open thread.

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There is part 1 and part 2 of my personal experimental methodology into essential oils.

For people that are having issues with their health providers or the cost there of, they might wish to look into alternative methods like this one.

This is a very unknown field of research, at least in terms of orthodox fields. Although I hear peppermint and mint have been used for quite some time in mouthwash and tooth paste.

This was part of my Ancient Era research as well, since frankincense is written of in the Bible. Why was this material valuable and why was it given? I like direct ways to knowledge, so it is easier for me to test it out myself, which I did.

J K Brown

Over at Econlog, Alberto Mingardi highlights a real modern gentleman scholar on his 90th birthday, “Tony de Jasay, the greatest thinker you don’t know”.

He highlighted a few of his contributions to the Econlib site. I was attracted to read ‘Your Dog Owns Your House’. After the amusing start, the article then becomes distressing as he seems to be building the case for what Obama and Elizabeth Warren later used for their “you didn’t build that” meme. No one owns anything and everyone owns everything because of the contributions inherent in division of labor. He then proceeds to show the fallacies in that meme. It is not a response to their memes, but it does provoke thought. And really, how better to show the flaws in ‘you didn’t build that’ than to counter with ‘your dog owns your house.”

They seem so utterly clueless about the fact that it’s private capital that provides the wealth that enables us to improve the infrastructure — just as they are clueless that the infrastructure improvements aid, but don’t create, private wealth. Sheesh!

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